Noni Suraksha Yojana became a source of assistance for unprivileged families’ daughters
Raipur: The Noni Suraksha Yojana is becoming crucial for daughters born into low-income families. This has eased the daughters’ future worries. As part of the program, poor family daughters who turn 18 and complete the 12th grade are given one lakh rupees. The Life Insurance Corporation and the Department of Women and Child Development have signed a contract for that purpose.
Under the Noni Suraksha Yojana, the state government deposits Rs 5,000, or a total of Rs 2500, per year for five years in the Life Insurance Corporation of India in the name of the registered girl child of poor families. So far 76,477 girls have been registered under the scheme. In the year 2021-22, 11,765 daughters have been given the benefit of the scheme.
The child sex ratio in Chhattisgarh was 975 per thousand according to data from the census year 2001, however, it fell to 969 per thousand in the census year 2011. To raise societal awareness of the declining child sex ratio in the state and among girls “Noni Suraksha Yojana” was implemented on April 01, 2014. The scheme’s primary goals are to raise the educational and health status of girls in the state and to set the foundation for a bright future for them, put an end to female foeticide, change how society views the conception of girls, stop child marriage, and stop female foeticide.
Benefits under the program are limited to two girls who were born after April 1, 2014, come from a household that is below the poverty level, and are residents of the state of Chhattisgarh. With the implementation of the program, poor urban families and families living in far tribal communities no longer have to worry about the future of their girls. The District Program Officer, District Women and Child Development Officer, and Child Development Project Officer at the block level can be contacted to take advantage of the program.
Meanwhile, in the Surajpur district, 4193 girls have been recognized and registered online, according to data provided by the Women and Child Development Department. 1032 of these girls have received their bonds from LIC. The way to a bright future for girls has become easier with the implementation of the Chhattisgarh government’s initiative Noni Suraksha Yojana, and the instances of child marriage and female foeticide are declining.
